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Quotes About Passion

Anything can be art. Anthing can be self-expression. Now you take the weapon and run with it.
~ Gerard Way
Human beings love, despite their compulsions to limit it and exploit it chaotically. Their love persuades them to make vows, build houses and turn their passion ultimately to duty.
~ Germaine Greer
Spirituality, by which I mean the purity of a strong and noble nature, with all the new and untried powers that must grow out of it—has not yet appeared on our horizon; and its absence is a natural consequence of a diversity of interests between man and woman, who are for the most part brought together through the attraction of passion; and who, but for that, would be as far asunder as the poles.
~ Germaine Greer
I'm crazy in love with you, Ryan. It's fireworks and Fourth of July. I want...I want to stay. I want to stay here.
~ Gerri Hill
She filled herself entirely with the molten dark.
~ Gertrud Kolmar
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
~ Gertrude Jekyll
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
~ Gertrude Stein
He was in love with me. Or rather, he yearned to be me. Which is, perhaps, the most instantaneous and absolute characteristic of love.
~ Gesualdo Bufalino
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.
~ Giacomo Casanova
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms.
~ Giacomo Casanova
Be the flame, not the moth.
~ Giacomo Casanova
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
~ Giacomo Casanova
I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.
~ Giacomo Casanova
Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite mine, I have always loved it and done all that I could to make myself loved by it. I have also been extravagantly fond of good food and irresistibly drawn by anything which could excite curiosity.
~ Giacomo Casanova
lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms.
~ Giacomo Casanova
It is shallow desires which make a young man bold; strong desires confound him.
~ Giacomo Casanova
If you refuse me, I shall be compelled to believe that you are cruelly enjoying my misery, and that you have learned in the most accursed school that the best way of preventing a young man from curing himself of an amorous passion is to excite it constantly; but you must agree with me that, to put such tyranny in practice, it is necessary to hate the person it is practised upon, and, if that be so, I ought to call upon my reason to give me the strength necessary to hate you likewise.
~ Giacomo Casanova
Feeling that I was born for the opposite sex, I have always loved it, and I have done everything I could to make myself beloved by it.
~ Giacomo Casanova
marriage is the tomb of love
~ Giacomo Casanova
Amami, per Dio. Ho bisogno d'amore, amore, amore, fuoco, entusiasmo, vita
~ Giacomo Leopardi
È cosa notata che il gran dolore (come ogni grande passione) non ha linguaggio esterno.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
E così sentir parlare di quella persona, mi scuote e tormenta come a chi si tastasse o palpeggiasse una parte del corpo addoloratissima, e spesso mi fa rabbia e nausea... Diario del primo amore
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Por lo demás, me siento tan poco dispuesto a avergonzarme de mi pasión que, desde el instante en que la abracé no he dejado de felicitarme y me alegra sentir uno de esos afectos sin los cuales ignoramos la grandeza, saber que soy capaz de sufrimientos distintos a los del cuerpo y haber descubierto la ternura y la sensibilidad desmesurada de mi corazón.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
io mi sentiva il cuore molto molle e tenero, e alla cena osservando gli atti e i discorsi della Signora, mi piacquero assai, e mi ammollirono sempre più; e insomma, la Signora mi premeva molto... Diario del primo amore
~ Giacomo Leopardi